Joe Armstrong famous quotes
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The temptation to add features to a program must be resisted as strongly as possible. This requires the dedication of a saint
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The problem with object-oriented languages is they've got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.
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I have a feeling that any simple problem can be made arbitrarily difficult by imposing a suitably heavy administrative process around the development.
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When I grew up music was something I did on the side - I played sports, I went to school - and so music was always there, and I was really fortunate to have that, but so were so many other things.
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Everyone should be able to go to a concert and enjoy music, and not feel like they're going to be harassed. That's how I see punk music.
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I want to be as big as I can be. To me, being big is just playing in front of a lot of people. And that's my goal.
-- Joe Armstrong
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Dedication means spending whatever time or energy is necessary to accomplish the task at hand.
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Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.
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Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.
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Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
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We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.
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Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
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To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.
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